Supporting climate-resilient fisheries during the UN Decade of Ocean Science

2 years 3 months ago
By EDF’s Jacob Eurich and Kristin Kleisner, and Kathy Mills, Gulf of Maine Research Institute Fisheries, including the systems for harvesting, processing and marketing blue foods, are an important pillar of many economies, supporting hundreds of millions of livelihoods. Small-scale fisheries and aquaculture produce more than half of the global fish catch and two-thirds of […]
EDF Oceans

Workers are people too; EPA should treat them that way

2 years 3 months ago

EPA’s proposed TSCA rule to limit risks from chrysotile asbestos uses a higher “acceptable” cancer risk for workers than the rest of the population Maria Doa, Ph.D., Senior Director, Chemicals Policy When it comes to drawing the line on cancer risks, should workers be treated differently than the general population? Of course not. Unfortunately, EPA’s […]

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Maria Doa, PhD, Senior Director, Chemicals Policy

Workers are people too; EPA should treat them that way

2 years 3 months ago
EPA’s proposed TSCA rule to limit risks from chrysotile asbestos uses a higher “acceptable” cancer risk for workers than the rest of the population Maria Doa, Ph.D., Senior Director, Chemicals Policy When it comes to drawing the line on cancer risks, should workers be treated differently than the general population? Of course not. Unfortunately, EPA’s […]
Maria Doa

Workers are people too; EPA should treat them that way

2 years 3 months ago

EPA’s proposed TSCA rule to limit risks from chrysotile asbestos uses a higher “acceptable” cancer risk for workers than the rest of the population Maria Doa, Ph.D., Senior Director, Chemicals Policy When it comes to drawing the line on cancer risks, should workers be treated differently than the general population? Of course not. Unfortunately, EPA’s […]

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Maria Doa, PhD, Senior Director, Chemicals Policy

Creating Data to Support Communities on the Front Lines of Oil and Gas Production in the US

2 years 3 months ago

This blog was co-authored by Kate Roberts. This week we published a new study that combines locations of active oil and gas wells with census tract data in a way that helps us better understand the characteristics of the communities living near them. Our findings support what environmental justice groups have been voicing for years: […]

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Jeremy Proville